Bending the cherry
Amateur Gardening|May 23, 2020
Toby is determined that his festooning measures will come good and that it won’t be him that goes round the bend!
Toby Buckland
Bending the cherry

The bucking bronco that is my Mazzard cherry tree has been effectively lassoed by festooning, with the branches bent down and fi xed within reach

TWO years ago, I planted two cherry trees; a modern dark fruited eater called ‘Summer Sun’ and an old English Mazzard or cultivated wild cherry called ‘Dun’. I didn’t add labels – why would I? I am a busy man with an elephantine memory!

Quite how I forgot is a mystery – all I know is that within a week, I was confused, and one month later, I was clueless and considering hypnotherapy. But nature – or rather the inherent nature of the trees – has offered an aide memoir…

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